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uneasy and anxious; sweating in patches. When excited to 
move, there was complete inability to flex and move the off 
hind leg, and the tendons of the gastro enerni became relaxed, 
showing a deep kink about three inches above the hock. 
The injury had been received while jumping down from a grass 
field over a hedge into a road upon a lower level. Previous 
to this the animal had been unlucky with that leg. He had 
flattening over the ischial tuberosity, chronic enlargement of 
the hock, and thickening of the fetlock and pastern. The day 
after receiving the injury, the leg was found hanging loose, 
and in a backward position. When the limb was raised, the 
foot and pastern swung loosely from side to side, but when it 
was drawn a little in advance, relief was given and the horse 
rested his full weight on the limbs. Any effort of his own to 
advance the leg only resulted in slackening the tendons, and 
the appearance of the “•kink” previously mentioned, with a 
slight throwing outwards of the toe. Beyond the chronic 
enlargement, there was no swelling or heat, but it was ob¬ 
served that when the feet were evenly placed, and the horse 
standing square, there was flattening of the inside of the leg, 
from the hock to the stifle, with a wrinkled appearance of the 
skin. The animal was placed in slings, and after six weeks 
was able to resume work.— Veterinary Journal. 
COMMINUTED FRACTURE OF THE LUNAR AND SIMPLE FRAC¬ 
TURE OF THE SCAPHOID AND CUNEIFORM BONES. 
By T. Marriott, M.R.C.Y.S. 
Fractures of those bones are very seldom noticed. The 
subject of this was a brown gelding, which was in harness, 
standing near a stable. The blanket had been removed from 
him, and while the assistant was proceeding to put it under 
the seat of the carriage, the horse started off on a trot, break¬ 
ing into a canter, and then into a gallop. After going about 
three hundred yards, he was compelled to make a sharp turn. 
He got round this turn safely, but owing to the pace, the car¬ 
riage did not turn so rapidly, and although he tried to avoid 
a dry ditch which was in his way, the conveyance pushed 
him into it, and turned a complete somersault over him. 
